That was the beginning of ...

That was the beginning of modern acting for me. You don't have to tell a camera everything. It gets bored if you do and wants to look elsewhere.
 Stephen Rea

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At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I?
 Stephen Rea
I didn't want to be seen as just a guy on a list. I'm interested in good scripts, scripts that are about something, scripts that move your acting along.
 Stephen Rea
Acting is way of making yourself exist.
 Stephen Rea
I'm enjoying it, but I still don't know why I'm hooked on acting.
 Stephen Rea
I loved movies as a teenager and saw as much American cinema as I could, but I hated the English films of the early 60s and had absolutely no point of identification with them.
 Stephen Rea